Have you ever?......

[powza]

I was thinking about really wierd situations that might come up in the game which would force you to make moves which would normally be considered stupid, but in the correct circumstances could potentially be great moves. I have thought of 2

1) Stoning your LW so that it is extra tough and can survive an inevitable next turn hit which would have otherwise killed it. I have never seen anyone stone a LW ever.

2) Barriering an opponents unit to prevent them from healing it the next turn. This obviously has the downside of protecting the unit for a minimum of 2 turns or until its next move but perhaps there is a situation where this was useful.

Has anyone had anything like this happen or any other things which where kinda wierd but awesome at the time? Just wondering. :D

I remember someone once posting about a "cleric shield". They used a cleric to absorb an opponents attack during the end game to save a knight. That is kinda the stuff Im talking about

[Wizzy`]

I've done the second one.

[uniquinous]

Yes I've done the second one so a last heal (right before I killed their cleric) wouldn't help a unit of theirs (I believe a scout).

My favorite randomness by far tho is my "death by cleric" move. Basically it is an endgame tactic I use where my enchantress has already paralyzed some enemy unit (thus can't really move *too* far), and I move my cleric towards the enemy unit (usually a knight) to physically stop it from actually getting away from the enchantress. By far my favorite.

[8ball]

Ive also done the second one it helps me out loads. I only use it when i grey though because i dont use BW when i turtle.

[powza]

Cool sounds like they are pretty useful and there are a few others I hadn't thought of. Thanks uniq. Another one maybe BW your BW to prevent a muddy killing it

[JesusCraig]

I actually barriered my lightning ward two seconds ago in my game against i'manoobtakeiteasy, i was down to dragon and frosty, furgon, cleric, ward and stony, he had two knights, a muddy,a dsm and a dragon. It was a same side rush vs my turtle, so I was using my lightning ward at every available moment, he pulled his dsm back to hurt it, and i stoned it so he couldn't kill it next turn.

[powza]

I actually barriered my lightning ward two seconds ago in my game against i'manoobtakeiteasy, i was down to dragon and frosty, furgon, cleric, ward and stony, he had two knights, a muddy,a dsm and a dragon. It was a same side rush vs my turtle, so I was using my lightning ward at every available moment, he pulled his dsm back to hurt it, and i stoned it so he couldn't kill it next turn.

So you barriered it or stoned it? Im guessing you stoned it. Well done JC! :cool:

[8ball]

Ive never actually tried to stone a LW, Might have to try it:dry:

[JesusCraig]

Yeah I meant stoned, all the talk of barriering threw me off :D, not only did I do it, but it was the turning point of the game.

[Bottle]

I've done all three. Stoned a LW (it was frozen and needed to survive to occupy the frost), barriered an enemy unit to pin it and the cleric, and use the cleric as a shield for both absorbing damage and blocking enchantress access.

[Memnarch]

I've done all three. Stoned a LW (it was frozen and needed to survive to occupy the frost), barriered an enemy unit to pin it and the cleric, and use the cleric as a shield for both absorbing damage and blocking enchantress access.

Thats cause ur a dirty fighter. Just kidding. I have used a cleric endgame to block units before. I havent really thought of the others. Thanks for the tips I think I will watch for that kind of stuff now.

[Bottle]

Dirty fighter? No, I'm just tactically unorthodox. I find that helps, as opponent's don't know what I'm going to do next. :)

[Fusion5]

Yes I do the second one at the end game all the time.

[Hellblazer]

On one grey account I used to have I did number 2, but with 5 barrier wards.

[Buster]

I do the 2nd alot

[Matt 34.5]

I saved my frosty by throwing my cleric in the way today, giving me the game.

[Mad Hаtter]

I have done both.

I also like trapping units with 3 knights and a cleric. They never expect the cleric to prevent them from running. :)

[bludhoundz]

The cleric is great for blocking chant / frost off.

Especially chant, because if they go after cleric then, *freeze*

I'm still waiting to see someone paralyze a lightning ward and hit it with a berserker as the only way to save the game. That is like.. the ultimate weirdness.

[imagination]

how about if you have a dsm... killing itself so you can use the drag next move and kill a unit before the dragon dies. like if both the dsm and drag were on three and the mudd was waiting. in some cases its a good move. ive done it once and zarack24 did it to me once back in the day.

another one i just did was put my witch in lw range and hit their scout. they zap witch and i moved a second witch into range got the scout and then my 2 chanties went crazy on them.

[battle composed]

The assassin's a pretty good blocking aid too, especially when its health gets into bomb status by the next hit. People tend to avoid hitting it then thus giving it a lot of openings to hurt.

[Lonely Tylenol]

1) Stoning your LW so that it is extra tough and can survive an inevitable next turn hit which would have otherwise killed it. I have never seen anyone stone a LW ever.

2) Barriering an opponents unit to prevent them from healing it the next turn. This obviously has the downside of protecting the unit for a minimum of 2 turns or until its next move but perhaps there is a situation where this was useful.

1) Stoned my LW to save it from Dragon. I have also stoned it when it was frosted so it would live long enough for me to defrost, at which point I could LW. :)

2) No, but I have barriered an Assassin to prevent the bomb shot.

Oh, has anyone ever specifically gone after every unit but units with a specific damage, then reduced the Assassin to a point where any hit by your opponent brings it into Bomb range?

[ko71991]

1) Stoning your LW so that it is extra tough and can survive an inevitable next turn hit which would have otherwise killed it. I have never seen anyone stone a LW ever.

2) Barriering an opponents unit to prevent them from healing it the next turn. This obviously has the downside of protecting the unit for a minimum of 2 turns or until its next move but perhaps there is a situation where this was useful.

1.) Probably.

2.) Yes. :)

I'm trying to remember more incidents, I know there are more... 0.o